Andrei Soldatov - How GULAG Economics and Repression is Dragging Russia Back to Worst Days of USSR
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Andrei Soldatov - How GULAG Economics and Repression is Dragging Russia Back to Worst Days of USSR

Russian’s assault on Ukraine in 2022 presents the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World War, and the nuclear posturing and threats by Russia are unprecedented in human history. But even before, through 2021 the ratcheting up of internal repression and persecution of opposition figures in Russia had created a foreboding sense of crisis and escalation. In today’s episode we’ll look at how the secret state apparatus is being used in wartime, and how this differs from the 2000s, the 1990s and even the Soviet period. Who are the Siloviki, and how do they suppress dissent in Russia?

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and security services expert. Together with fellow journalist Irina Borogan he is co-founder of Agentura.Ru – a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He’s been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999. Together with Irina Borogan Andrei has co-authored three books: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015) and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (2019). Until 2008 Andrei Soldatov wrote for Novaya Gazeta, but has since written for many other publications. He is a Visiting Fellow of King's College London, and Senior Fellow at CEPA, the Centre for European Policy Analysis.

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